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I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.
She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"
And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.
I can't think about it without crying.
(The original article: https://authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-Star-Trek-Discovery-and-Michelle-Yeohs-accent-aa6d2eb01b3a24970abf406c39146df33)
@skrishna wow that’s awesome!
I can’t help but ask … would you have preferred if the captain Georgiou character had been kept around instead of killed off?
I ask because it feels to me like a missed opportunity to have a character like that given a full tenure “in the chair”. But I don’t have your perspective.
And we could still have had the empress too as her mirror counterpart no?
@StrangeNoises @maegul @skrishna There is talk of her helming a spinoff Star Trek series after Discovery wraps up.
@Abdiel @maegul @StrangeNoises @skrishna with her success now I don’t know if we’ll get it. I wish we’d get a mini series anyway. Michelle LOVES playing emperor Georgiou. I really was looking forward to. Follow up of where she goes and her character journey that began S2 and 3 of Discovery. It got really interesting.
@universeodon @maegul @StrangeNoises @skrishna I'm sure that the price she can command just went up, but so did her ability to play the roles she wants.
@Abdiel @universeodon @StrangeNoises @skrishna and the audience she can attract.
@jpv206 @skrishna exactly the way I’ve put it to friends: how about an Eastern/Asian “Picard”. Instead of quoting Shakespeare and citing Dunkirk or Agincourt, they draw on Eastern culture in their commitment to their ideals and the value of “refined” culture.
The more I think about it, the more it cements Discovery’s status as the “Trek that could have been”.
